Improvement in hoes



T. B. LUCKWUUD.

Hoes.

N0, 14],365, Patentedjuly 29,1873.

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NITED STATES PATENT OEFIQE THOMAS B. LOGKWOOD, OF SMYRNA, DELAWARE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,365, dated July 29,1873; application filed December 19, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS B. LocKwooD, of Smyrna, State of Delaware,have invented certain Improvements in VVeeding-Hoes, of which thefollowing is a specification:

My invention relates to a weeding-hoe; and consists in improvementshereinafter described and afterward pointed out in the claim; and inorder to enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention,I will describe the same, reference being had to the accompanyin gdrawing making a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a top view of my hoe, showing the blade on the eye. Fig. 2is a top view of the blade. Fig. 3 is a view of the eye. Fig. 4 is aside section of the same. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the hoe.

The eye B is made with the shoulder or projection b, which rests uponthe upper edge of the blade-plate A, and by this construction affordsgreat strength to both the eye and the blade of the hoe, the two partsbeing brought in direct contact on the upper part of the blade, and thusthe whole force of the blow given is transferred from the handle and eyeof the hoe to the blade without the usual strain upon the rivetssecuring the parts together.

I also place the eye B under or behind the plate, as shown in Fig. 1,thus securing strength to the blade by the backing and support affordedby the lower portion of the eye. The plate A is to be cut or made fromcast-steel or any other desirable material, while the eye B is made ofmalleable iron, and the two parts secured together by rivets, as shownin the drawing.

The eye is made of malleable iron, with rivets cast upon the insideface-the eye elongated in a vertical direction.

, Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The hoe herein described, consisting of an elongated eye made ofmalleable iron, with a square shoulder on its inside face, and a bladefitted to said shoulder and secured by rivets to the eye-plate. asspecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' THOS. B. LOGKWOOD.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. F. COOPER, GEO. R. OooPER.

